Another brilliant portrait of New York City Islam from the NYT’s Andrea Elliott — a major feature on the Khalil Gibran International Academy and the campaign to destroy its founding principal, Debbie Almontaser, who’s just speaking out now for the first time since the controversy began. Elliott names that campaign for what it is: “the work of a growing and organized movement to stop Muslim citizens who are seeking an expanded role in American public life.” Elliott, who won a Pulitzer last year for her portrait of a NYC imam, has used her metro beat to become one of the best religion reporters working today.